Botola Pro preview: Can Olympic Safi edge out victory against Chabab Mohammédia?

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Competition: Morocco Botola Pro
Competition: Thu 20.April
Match begins: 22:00 (UTC)
Venue: Stade El Massira (20000 seats)

A win is the only result that will suffice for the Olympic Safi supporters in this Stade El Massira duel with Chabab Mohammédia, seeing as they have a healthy lead on the opposition in the Botola Pro standings.

Insights:
  • Olympic Safi have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Chabab Mohammédia have scored away.

There has not been much time to rest for the guests, as they played a Botola Pro game only four days ago.

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Olympic Safi form and stats

4-6-1 (win-draw-lost) are the Botola Pro numbers at home for Olympic Safi so far this season.

Olympic Safi enjoyed a nice away win last time out, playing at Difaa El Jadida's place. The match ended 1-0 with Ndong scoring.

Previous to that game, a home match hosting UTS Rabat in a game that was won 3-2.

The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Olympic Safi handle that role? We have found 11 games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are 6 wins, 3 draws and 2 defeats.

The Olympic Safi fans would probably like to see some more goals scored at their own stadium in the league, the tally being 13 in 11 matches. Olympic have only conceded 9 from their league home games. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.

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Chabab Mohammédia form and stats

Chabab Mohammédia have only collected 10 points from their away games in the Botola Pro, after 3-1-7 (11 played). Three has not been a lucky number for Chabab Mohammédia as they have been defeated three times in a row since the UTS Rabat match.

Chabab Mohammédia might have something to prove in this game as they lost at home in their previous match. Hassania Agadir proved too strong as Chabab Mohammédia slumped to a 1-2 defeat in front of their own fans. Late heartbreak for Mohammédia in the Hassania Agadir match, as the deciding 1-2 goal came deep into overtime.

It was a defeat before that one as the away game against Moghreb Tétouan wasn't a success with a 0-1 loss.

Chabab Mohammédia are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is 1 win, 3 draws and 5 defeats. From a total of 9 matches.

Low-scoring game? 10 of this side's latest 12 league fixtures have had two goals or less.

Goals are few and far between in Chabab Mohammédia's away league games. Only {5 goals} from 11 travels. It's been trouble in front of goal recently, as only 0 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches. It's not easy to score on Mohammédia as they have only conceded 9 goals from these away games.

Head 2 Head

Olympic Safi have not lost in the last 4 games (2-2-0) versus Chabab Mohammédia.

The latest H2H game ended Chabab Mohammédia - Olympic Safi 1-2, earlier this season.

Top Goalscorers

Chabab MohammédiaO. Lamlaoui
O. Lamlaoui
6 goals
Olympic SafiC. Samaké
C. Samaké
4 goals
Chabab MohammédiaA. Ennakhli
A. Ennakhli
4 goals

Olympic Safi missing players

Chabab Mohammédia missing players

Olympic Safi Chabab Mohammédia
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
23 11 4 Played P 3 11 23
10 4 1 Won W 1 3 6
9 6 2 Drew D 0 1 6
4 1 1 Lost L 2 7 11
27 13 3 Scored S 2 5 18
21 9 3 Conceded C 3 9 25
87% 73% 75% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 91% 91%
65% 64% 50% Over 1.5 O 1.5 33% 18% 48%
39% 36% 25% Over 2.5 O 2.5 33% 18% 30%
13% 18% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 0% 4%
4% 9% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 4%
61% 64% 50% BTTS BTTS 33% 18% 43%
35% 36% 50% Clean Sheets C S 0% 27% 22%
17% 27% 25% Failed to Score F T 67% 64% 43%
 
4 4.2 3.2 Corners for (avg) C F 3 4.1 4
4.3 3.2 2 Corners against (avg) C A 10 7.1 6.5
2.3 2.6 2.5 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1.3 1.5 1.8
3 1 0 Red cards R C 0 0 1
 
10.2 9.9 12.2 Shots (avg) S ( 5.3 6.8 8.1
3.5 3.2 3 Shots on Target (avg) S O 2.3 2.3 2.9
34% 37% 25% Goal Efficiency G E 29% 20% 27%
 
6.2 5.9 3.8 Shots against (avg) S A 19.3 14 12.8
2.4 2.3 2 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 6 4.9 4.3
Key stats in Botola Pro this season:
  • Olympic Safi have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Chabab Mohammédia have scored away.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 FAR Rabat 23 15 5 3 40 15 12 9 2 1 26 9 11 6 3 2 14 6 25 50
2 Wydad Casablanca 23 14 7 2 33 17 11 8 2 1 17 6 12 6 5 1 16 11 16 49
3 FUS Rabat 24 12 8 4 31 12 12 7 4 1 21 6 12 5 4 3 10 6 19 44
4 Olympic Safi 23 10 9 4 27 21 11 4 6 1 13 9 12 6 3 3 14 12 6 39
5 Raja Casablanca 23 9 8 6 25 20 12 7 5 0 16 7 11 2 3 6 9 13 5 35
6 Riadi Salmi 24 8 9 7 25 25 12 3 5 4 12 15 12 5 4 3 13 10 0 33
7 RSB Berkane 23 8 9 6 21 22 12 5 2 5 14 16 11 3 7 1 7 6 -1 33
8 UTS Rabat 24 8 7 9 24 28 12 6 2 4 12 9 12 2 5 5 12 19 -4 31
9 Maghreb Fes 23 6 11 6 24 22 11 4 5 2 10 6 12 2 6 4 14 16 2 29
10 Hassania Agadir 23 7 5 11 20 25 12 4 4 4 12 12 11 3 1 7 8 13 -5 26
11 Moghreb Tétouan 23 5 11 7 23 29 12 4 5 3 11 13 11 1 6 4 12 16 -6 26
12 Chabab Mohammédia 23 6 6 11 18 25 12 3 5 4 13 16 11 3 1 7 5 9 -7 24
13 Mouloudia Oujda 23 6 5 12 24 28 11 2 4 5 10 12 12 4 1 7 14 16 -4 23
14 Difaa El Jadida 24 5 7 12 19 36 12 4 4 4 8 10 12 1 3 8 11 26 -17 22
15 Khouribga 23 2 11 10 17 28 11 2 4 5 10 13 12 0 7 5 7 15 -11 17
16 Ittihad Tanger 23 5 2 16 14 32 11 4 1 6 10 11 12 1 1 10 4 21 -18 17

Read more about Botola Pro

The Botola Pro (or Botola Premier League) is the top level football league in Morocco. Botola literally means “the Moroccan Championship”. It’s season runs from August to May and has 16 teams each playing 30 fixtures to decide the final league table. The Botola Pro is the most watched football league in Africa according to Wikipedia, and football the most popular sport in Morocco.